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ITT expanding its vision
Virginia Business
November 2005
ITT Industries Night Vision has rebounded from a federal
fine to win a major military contract.
Earlier this year, the State
Department fined the Roanoke County-based defense contractor
$8 million for “careless
actions” after several night-vision products sold
to foreign customers went missing. Now, however, the
company has captured a five-year contract potentially
worth $1.39 billion from the U.S. Army Contracting Agency
of White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The deal, one of two awards under the Omnibus VII night-vision
contract, calls for the subsidiary of New York-based
ITT Industries Inc. to deliver night-vision devices and
goggles worth $160 million and production facilities
and equipment worth $40 million.
“We are committed to supplying our soldiers with
the lifesaving night-vision technology they need to perform
their critical missions safely,” says Larry Curfiss,
vice president and director of business development for
ITT Industries.
The company is already anticipating more work in light
of congressional approval of an emergency supplemental
wartime appropriations package, which includes $859 million
for night-vision equipment. ITT says that it will invest
$51.1 million to expand its facilities in Roanoke County
and create 250 new jobs.
The 1,100-employee company is
the world’s leading
developer, producer and supplier of third-generation
image intensifier tubes and systems. It provides night-vision
equipment to the United States, its allies and other
friendly nations, including Australia, Switzerland, Israel,
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey.
ITT Industries Night Vision will begin delivering night-vision
units to its new customer in January.
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